Gerontoplast

A gerontoplast is a plastid that develops from a chloroplast during the senescing of plant foliage.[1] Gerontoplast development is generally seen to be the process of grana being unstacked, loss of thylakoid membranes, and large accumulation of plastoglobuli.

  1. ^ Wise, Robert (13 September 2007). The Structure and Function of Plastids. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 11. ISBN 9781402065705.

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